Word: publically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Public Interest. So far, the only apparent beneficiary of the strike at the morning Globe has been the bigger, richer afternoon Post-Dispatch. Since the strike began, the Post-Dispatch has jumped 60,000 in daily circulation...
...last week the Post-Dispatch indicated that it would gladly give up the gains to get back the Globe-Democrat. Said the public-service-minded Post-Dispatch in an unusual editorial: "There is a public interest in the publication of two separate, independent newspapers in this community. We believe the public interest calls for an early settlement. In all too many American cities, newspaper competition has disappeared. The Post-Dispatch does not want to see that happen here...
...they got ready to bargain on a new contract, steelmakers and union seemed well aware last week that there will be a third man at the table: the public. Both sides were firing off statements designed to win friends and influence people. United Steelworkers President David McDonald, who had rejected the steelmakers' request that he freeze wages, demanded that the steelmen freeze prices for the life of the new contract, and still give 500,000 steelworkers higher wages and benefits. This would be "justified," McDonald argued, by the industry's heavy profits (see below) and the rising productivity...
Behind the Scenes. Though both labor and management experts predicted a strike, Government officials feel just the opposite. They think that a walkout will be averted -or be no more than a token stoppage-because the public is watching the bargaining so closely. President Eisenhower is reportedly pleased with the prenegotiation squabbling, because it shows that labor and management know they are on the spot, will think twice before assuming public responsibility for an inflationary steel price rise...
...York City's public transportation system has well earned its bad name. The city-run subways (237 miles) and surface lines (554 miles) are often slow, sporadic, smelly-and they are running $17 million in the red this year. Last week a private operator offered to relieve New York of this financial headache, reportedly was ready to pay upwards of $500 million in cash and bonds-give or take a few million-for the $2.1 billion transit system. Said O.(for Oscar) Roy Chalk, 51, able admiral of D.C. Transit System, the national capital's surface lines...